It seems particularly perverse to take actors who helped develop the '60's thesping style of hang-loose, semi-improvisational immediacy and stick them in a creaky period piece glazed with arch gentility and ersatz quaintness.
Overview
Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. The loser of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as boarders. But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman selected from the applicants, the captains get cold feet.
Director and cast
- Daniel Adams Director
- David Carradine as Capt. Zebulon Hedge
- Rip Torn as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
- Bruce Dern as Captain Perez
- Mariel Hemingway as Martha
- Charles Durning as John Bartlett
- Jason Alan Smith as Ralph Hazeltine
- Christy Scott Cashman as Elisabeth Preston
- Angelica Page as Melissa Busteed
- John Savage Cast
- Julie Harris Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
This musty yarn would have worked better as a 1940s MGM programmer.
The Golden Boys is an object lesson in how to squander a seasoned cast, a charming premise and a breathtaking location.
Trying to sit through The Golden Boys is like trudging across the Cape Cod sand in galoshes during a nor'easter with a mule on your back.
Aside from the occasional magical shot or affecting actor moment, it's a film whose poverty betrays most every frame.
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